Tunnel Patrol

[Ryutatsu "Sakurai Sword"]

Name: Village gate duty (tunnel system).
Rank: “C” Rank.
IIC Length: 1 day.
Difficulty: Easy.
Description: A small shortage of ANBU has caused a necessary demand for shinobi to patrol the villages tunnel system. With your help, we may ensure that safety is never jeopardized for our tunnel systems.
You are asked to patrol the tunnel system: checking for abnormalities/cracks within the tunnel, checking for any usual activity, etc, etc. To ensure that you are not lost and or followed, an ANBU guard will seek you out, and return you to safety as you may be lost within the tunnel as well. Report to the Raikage’s tower soon after.
Objective: May be repeated 2 times.
Patrol the tunnel system. Make a proper status check and make sure you are not followed. Return to kage’s tower for completion.
Personnel requirements: 1-2 shinobis of any rank. May be performed in groups if one choose so.
Reward: 14,000 ryo (11,500 ryo for a non-nin).

Ryutatsu was about to head out when he got pulled for Tunnel patrol duty. It was a simple duty but he was to help out how he could. As he descended into the depths of the tunnel system below the village he double checked his gear before all light was gone. Ryutatsu felt the reassuring presence of his two swords. Nightin Gale and the Perfect Mundane Crystal Swords were always on him.

Ryutatsu was dress much the same as he would for battle with his normal clothes and tactical vest as well as a leg holster. On his vest was the eight pouches that he always carried, four of seeds and four of iron shaving pitchers. On his hand was his gauntlet which as he thought about it needed to be upgraded though the spring release claws were still good.

His Perfected Mithril Armor was in place which was a full set outside of a helmet. It didn't weigh much so he still had full freedom of movement. He slipped his goggles of x-ray over his eyes so he would have some vision in the underground. He also had his little pistol crossbow with a explosive magazine load in his leg holster just in case. He was ready for the underground. And then he descended into the depths for his patrol.

[Ryutatsu "Sakurai Sword"]

Ryutatsu patrolled the darken tunnel system in almost complete silence not seeing much but the edges of the tunnel. Every now and then he would see supports that was reinforcing sections here and there. But for the most part it was a fairly boring patrol so far. HE would occasionally look at a crystal formation or some interesting rocks even though he could not see them well. 

It was when he sensed metal and the like that he was really interested. He had the background and research to start trying to identify certain veins of it here and there. He wondered if he could advise the Raikage or one of her staff of them so it could get mined. He would like a finders fee though if that happen, anything to fund his two forges and his satellite dojo. He really needed to get back to working in the forge himself. 

Maybe that would be what he does when he got back, Ryutatsu thought to himself. His metal sense and knowledge of geology though was making a boring patrol at least somewhat interesting. He really didn't see why they needed patrols though adding guards at the entrances should be good enough. Where someone gonna go in these tunnels though they were like a maze. 

[Ryutatsu "Sakurai Sword"]

Besides Ryutatsu's usual training, he was always training sensory loss because people like Shiki and others like limiting one or the other. Which reminded him on the things to train was his sense of smell. For Everything had been basically turned up with his intense training in Gintsuki but it wasn't enough for the young man. He wanted to be the very best he could possibly be.

Ryutatsu really didn't have much to do as he wondered aimlessly around in the maze of tunnels. He knew his way back but not much more than that. There was no purpose and no light down there and it was just so quiet. Even the slightest shifts of rocks could be heard. It was like he was alone in the universe in that complete darkness. Nothing to really see and very little to do but keep walking.

And he walked at an easy amble for why rush on such a boring and quiet place. He found the total silence and lack of the ability to see much was making his senses even sharper. This would be a good area to finish his training in that he thought. Nothing much else to do while there. Maybe some sort of mole or something was what he was keeping an eye out for he didn't know.

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Sutatikku Nagare (Static Current) (20 Meters) (25 Rounds)
Rank: "C"
Skill: Kekkai Genkai Ninjutsu
Effect: Allows the user to manipulate electrostatics and electric charges.
Special: Rat, Dragon, Ram, Tiger, Monkey, Dog, Horse, Rabbit once per 5 turns.
Drawback: Objects must be visible. While actively using this ability, the user must remain perfectly still, and no other jutsu may be used while the user is attempting to manipulate charges. Only metallic objects or semi-metallic objects can be manipulated.
Description: Allows the user to manipulate and control electrostatic, which is by definition electricity at rest. This gives the user the ability to move around both positive and negative charges on objects, which, in the end, can result in the ability to either repel or attract objects to and from each other. It must be noted that this jutsu strictly follows the concept of the Conservation of Charges. That means that without influence, all charges within nature are balanced at zero. Only when acted upon do these charges change. This ability is a requirement for all members of the Kyoudo Clan. When the user first gains this ability, they have only the ability to affect one object at a time within five meters of their person. At maximum, the user may move 10% of an object’s positive or negative charges to another object. While actively using this ability, the user must remain perfectly still, and no other jutsu may be used while the user is attempting to manipulate charges. Due to the relative electrical field produced by every person Kyoudo cannot affect people, and due to the low electronegativity of non-metallic objects, only metallic objects can be affected. It is only through mastery over the element of thunder that one can obtain this ability.
Limit: Kyoudo Clan only

Sutatikku Nou (Static Awareness)
Rank: B
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: Allows a member of the Kyoudo blood limit to manipulate and control electrostatic charges even out of their range of sight, in their personal static field.
Special: -
Drawback: One can only use this ability if it is in the range of their own electrostatic field. Only useful if one has trained Kyori Keiko a number of times. All manipulation of sensed objects is still, of course, limited by the other Kyoudo techniques.
Description: Normally one can only use their Sutatikku Nagare ability on objects they can see. However with much training and experience eventually a member of the Kyoudo become so attuned with their static field that they can 'feel' objects around them. All objects in nature carry an electrical charge even if it's at zero. An experienced Kyoudo can sense such things and manipulate them as long as it is within their own static field. This grants the user the ability of complete static awareness in their field. This is directly correlated to the amount of times one has learned Kyori Keiko (Distance Training).
Limit: Sutatikku Nagare (Static Current) ability, 500 tp in the Kyoudo clan. Once you have 500 TP of Kyoudo jutsus, this is automatically "learned".

Uncanny Dodge
Rank: “B”
Skill: Supplementary
Effect: The user is no longer be flat-footed.
Special: –-
Drawback: –-
Description: The user can react to danger before their senses would normally allow them to do so. They cannot be caught flat-footed, nor do they lose any Defensive benefits if the attacker is invisible. The user still loses their Defensive benefits if they are immobilized. A user with this ability can still lose their Defensive Abilities if an opponent successfully uses a feint attack. If the user already knows Uncanny Dodge from a different source, they may automatically learn Improved Uncanny Dodge.
Limit: Must learn from a Master of Busōsen (Arms Flash).

Heaven Shapeless: Dodge
Rank: "D", "C", "B", "A", "S"
Skill: TaiJutsu
Effect: A technique used to dodge and evade attacks.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: The user learns how to proficiently dodge and evade flying objects as well as oncoming weapons through predicting the attacks. A very useful technique since the Heaven Shapeless: Stance (Single) has no defensive capabilities. The user will stand in one position and learn the minimum amount of movements required to avoid an attack. The bending of the body at a rapid pace is essential to this technique as well as ducking, side-stepping, jumping, and bobbing/weaving. Each rank the user learns the user is capable of effectively knowing how to evade a technique equal in rank.
Limit: Must learn from a Master of Tensora (天空 Heavenly Sky), Must know Heaven Shapeless: Stance (Single).

Nameru (To Taste)
Rank: E, D, C, B, A, S
Skill: Taijutsu
Effect: The user, through the sharpening of their five senses and an instinctual knowledge of flow, becomes aware of their surroundings and capable of defending against attacks.
Special: --
Drawback: Can only be learned up to your current Character Rank.
Description: The user strives to expand their senses, taking in data from all five senses and treating each of them as equally important. Through a combination of peripheral vision, hearing, and measurement of air pressure changes, the user becomes capable of perceiving threats around them and reacting accordingly. At E rank, the user can only perceive such threats as traps or projectiles. However, at the following levels, the user becomes capable of perceiving strikes from a foe of an equal level to the rank they have learned. Therefore, a B rank ninja could strike a C rank user of this technique and the user would not be able to perceive them via this technique and lose the majority of the benefits, though their dodging would benefit from the heightened awareness nonetheless. The user may only learn this technique up to their character’s rank. Thus, a C rank character could only learn up to the C rank version of Nameru. Nameru is limited to threats within twenty meters of the foe, as anything that doesn’t enter that radius is beyond the senses of a human to perceive. However, threats are perceivable once they enter that range.
Limit: Must learn from a Gintsuki no Seikou Mai Master. Must know Hyouuryuu Yuki (Drifting Snow).

[Ryutatsu "Sakurai Sword"]

Ryutatsu was soon losing track of the time he was spending in the tunnels. The darkness and silence was near oppressive but he continued his patrol unfettered. He walked for what seemed like miles in this endless maze of tunnels. Unless someone knew exactly where they were heading and the route, this path would be a death trap. That didnt include the several traps he had passed that he could have engaged if he hadn't been warned before hand.

Ryutatsu honestly was quite bored with the patrol as a whole. But then his high tech watch beeped letting him know it was time to head back. But the journey back was going to be as long as the journey here. Not a thing had disturbed his patrol. Which in some ways having a quiet mission was nice. But he had gotten so use to action it was just weird. Every mission before this ended up getting him in deep trouble where luck and circumstances was what allowed survival.

[Ryutatsu "Sakurai Sword"]

Ryutatsu made his way back to the tunnel entrance with relative ease. Normally the would send an AnBu to collect the lost patrollers but Ryutatsu didn't need that. He wasn't lost even though there was very little to guide him. It was actually the network of sewer pipes and the city above that guided him. For all the metal in the village and in the piping could be sensed by him even though he couldn't see. 

Ryutatsu was cleverly using that as his guide and building a rough mental map in his head. HE could be generally guided back to where he began. He did reach a few dead ends using this method and had many places where he had to take a circular route around. But eventually he made it back to the entrance he left from. There he surprised the AnBu that was just about to come down to fetch him.

"Nothing much to see down there. " And Ryutatsu walked off after checking out with the clerk who handled the patrols for that entrance. He would then head back to the tower to check in for any more assignments. 

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